On Oct 9, 2006, at 7:57 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Jasse Jansson wrote: >>> I'll do it myself soon because the system beep of my >>> Blade 100 induces nightmares even in brittle plastic. >> >> The beeper in the Blade 100 & Blade 100 was the original reason >> why the Xsun -audiobell was created - no one but the original >> designers liked that beeper. >> > > Heh. This is true on our (Tadpole) SPARCLE hardware. Many users have > complained about the power-on beep on those machines. Its > controlled by > very low level firmware, and so isn't easily changeable in the field, > unfortunately.
Just tested, one 150 ohm resistor in series with the speaker makes the beep acceptable. Kaiser Jasse -- Authorized Stealth Oracle The axioms of wisdom: 1. Life' a game, play it 2. You can't conquer the universe without the knowledge of FORTRAN 3. In the Unix realm, 10% of work fixes 90% of the problems
